Identifying and Protecting Indigenous Ceremonial & Cultural Stone Landscapes

Funded through a grant from the New York Council for the Humanities  

Sat March 16th, 5 PM – Join Overlook Mountain Center & the Historical Society of Woodstock, at the Woodstock Community Center, for a workshop titled “Let the Landscape Speak”, on identifying and protecting indigenous ceremonial stone landscapes in our community.  Doug Harris, Deputy Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Narragansett Tribal Historic Preservation Office, in Connecticut, will lead a workshop explaining and illustrating how these important resources of cultural significance are routinely misidentified and threatened by developers and how we, as citizens, can become part of the process to protect and preserve these precious sites and the important lessons and messages they hold. YouTube clip of Doug speaking

10 AM Sunday morning, Doug will join us for a tour of the Lewis Hollow site of Overlook Mountain (weather permitting). Woodstock Community Center 56 Rock City Road, Woodstock, NY 12498 Call 845 417 8384 to register.